Re: Phonology Question (Coda vs. Word Final)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 17, 2003, 7:31 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> Are there natural languages that do this--make restrictions on what
> can end a syllable that are harsher than on those that can end a word?
> Are such restrictions realistic? Any info would be much appreciated.
Yes. Word-initial and word-final syllables can often be more complex
than word-medial syllables. Often this is due to earlier phonetic
changes such as the loss of final schwas. For example, English permits
clusters such as /kt/ to end words (as in "fact" or "asked", which as
/skt/), but, so far as I can tell, /kt/ never ends medial syllables
except in compound words such as "fact-finding" (where it is still
*morpheme*-final)
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